What is a museum for?

The museum institution, despite the drastic changes that happened in its understanding over the centuries, was always directly connected with the concept of archivization. The following work is an attempt to draw attention that this tendency has significant negative aspects related to a particular model of thinking about the concept of a...

Engaging Visitors at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen: The design of an interactive guided experience which invites visitors to contribute and feel a sense of ownership of the collection stored in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen

A design was developed to introduce and invite visitors to take ownership of the collection stored in Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen. The Double Diamond process formed the basis of the design methodology. This iterative process resulted into the design of an interactive guided experience. <br/><br/>Extensive research resulted in the selection of...

Sharing the personal art experience: A family visit to Kunstmuseum Den Haag

This report describes the process of designing a shared family experience for Kunstmuseum Den Haag that encourages visitors to explore and discuss the personal art experience together.<br/><br/>Kunstmuseum Den Haag is an art museum with a large variation of art pieces. They would like to see more families visiting the museum. <br/>Their vision...

Designing a more inclusive museum experience: A strategic service concept to contribute to inclusion in the museum sector, by facilitating a mutually beneficial relationship between museums and their audiences

This project is about inclusion in the museum sector. Concerns around inclusion and equality are rapidly increasing. And, due to these societal dynamics, museums are in times of fundamental change towards inclusivity.<br/><br/>At the start of the project, a theoretic framework depicting the different layers and elements of inclusion was...

Future museum shopping experience design for Museum Catharijneconvent

The overall museum experience consists of the visiting experience and shopping experience. Visiting experience is normally the focus of the museum, however, the shopping experience is often ignored. This leads to that the shopping experience is separate from the overall experience. This project cooperates with Museum Catharijneconvent and aims...

The photographer experience: Designing an experience that gives museum visitors the photographer feeling

The Nederlands Fotomuseum is the Dutch national museum for photography and its archive has the biggest collection of photographic material in the country. Currently, the visitors of the museum have a rather passive role and are merely subjected to the visual artworks in the museum. The museum desires to give the visitors more insight in the...